Lift is an open source web framework for Scala that was created 8 years ago and focuses on templates, snippets, REST support, security features like preventing XSS and CSRF, Comet sockets for pushing data from server to browser, parallel page rendering, Scala actors for concurrency, and has disadvantages of a terrible API, outdated documentation and a learning curve.

1. Presentation by Joel Correa - Software Engineer

2. What is lift
8 years old, founded by David Pollack

3. View first
Templates
- No logic!
- Pure Static templates
Snippets
- Snippets are invoked by the
template, and not vice-versa

6. Super simple REST support

7. Session management
XSS
Out-of-the-box security
"[...] Because most of developers dont understand security."
CSRF
SQL Injection

8. Ajax support

9. Comet Sockets
Allows a web server to push data to a
browser without the browser explicitly
requesting it

10. Parallel Page Rendering

11. CSS selectors
Transform NodeSeq => NodeSeq

12. Scala Actors for concurrency

13. Disadvantages
- Terrible API
- Outdated tutorials / Documentation
- Learning curve

14. Presentation by Joel Correa - Software Engineer